Mangoes in the Philippines

What is the first thing that comes in your mind when you hear the word “Mango”? If you will ask me that question, the first thing that I think of is the Philippines.
In my opinion, I can say, Without any doubt, that the best mangoes that the world has ever tasted came from the Philippines. I know people from other mango producing countries will question my statement. However, I am confident to say that there is no other mango out there that can beat Philippine mangoes in terms of sweetness, sourness, size, and weight. I tried almost all the imported mango varieties here in the US — including local mangoes. They all taste different from the original Philippine Mango. There are even varieties here that says “Manila Mangoes” in the sticker, but the taste does not say so.

There are many mango varieties in the Philippines. Champagne mango or Carabao mango is probably the most famous in terms of taste. This mango variety is the sweetest mango that I ever tasted. It is also the mango variety that the Philippines export to other countries.
There are different strains (breed) produced from Carabao mango — one of which is called Sweet Elena. If I am not mistaken, this breed originated somewhere in Zambales. Sweet Elena mango is the sweetest that I ever had. It is probably the sweetest mango in the world. There are also the well loved Cebu and Guimaras mangoes which are of world class quality.

Filipinos enjoy eating mango regardless if it is green or ripe. The Pico mango or Manggang Pico is best eaten regardless of its maturity. I enjoy eating green mangoes — especially if it is extra sour. Pico mango is my first choice whenever I want to eat Manggang Hilaw with Bagoong. Don’t get me wrong, green carabao mangoes are good too. It is just a matter of preference.
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...Philippine literature is the literature associated with the Philippines and includes the legends of prehistory, and the colonial legacy of the Philippines. Most of the notable literature of the Philippines was written during the Spanish period and the first half of the 20th century in Spanish language. Philippine literature is written in Spanish, English,Tagalog, and/or other native Philippine languages.
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Doctrina Christiana, Manila, 1593, is the first book printed in the Philippines.
Tomas Pinpin wrote and printed in 1610 Librong Pagaaralan nang mga Tagalog nang Uicang Castilla, 119 pages designed to help fellow Filipinos to learn the Spanish language in a simple way. He is also credited with the first news publication made in the Philippines, "Successos Felices",
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[edit]Classical literature in Spanish (19th Century)
On December 1, 1846, La Esperanza, the first daily newspaper, was published in the country. Other early newspapers were La Estrella (1847), Diario de Manila (1848) and Boletin Oficial de......

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Cavite is the historical capital of the Philippines and the closest province south of Manila. With its balanced mix of urbanity, natural beauty and history it is considered as the most accessible vacation getaway and refuge for those seeking a quiet life far from the bustling Manila metropolis.
Cavite is a coastal province situated approximately 9 miles (30 kilometers) south of Manila. It is composed of 20 municipalities and 3 key cities – Trece Martires City (provincial capital), Tagaytay City and Cavite City. The geography of the province varies differently, from flat and coastal in the north and west, to mountainous and hilly in the south and east. Its close proximity to the capital makes it highly urbanized especially in the low-lying municipalities of Bacoor, Imus, Dasmarinas, Kawit, Cavite City, and General Trias where various industries thrive. But in the towns south of the province, agriculture is still the main livelihood and boasts a great amount of preserved forests and wildlife.......

...Region 1 or the Ilocos Region is composed of four provinces and a city—Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Pangasinan, and Dagupan City. Majority of the population verbalizes Ilocano, the third most astronomically immense verbalized language in the Philippines, albeit a consequential number additionally verbalize Pangasinense.
The region has a coast and hilly ranges that are prone to typhoon in the wet months, but devastatingly sultry during the dry season. This is the backdrop of Ilocano food. It’s salty due to the proximity to the sea. There is even an entire province denominated after asin (salt) in Pangasinan. Fish is preserved by drying, and of course, reduced into a paste or sauce by fermentation.
Vegetables are hardy and can weather the rains or extreme heat. Thus, you have dishes like pinakbet or dinengdeng—locally sourced vegetable, flavored with fish paste.
Love basking on the sand? The coast provides a colorful array of it from the greyest of grey to the white beaches of Pagudpud. There’s even one beach that is just pristine pebble.
Many of these beaches cater to tourists, like the surfing areas of San Juan in La Amalgamation. But take a while to get disoriented, and you’ll still find obnubilated gems in minute towns.
Architectural masterpieces? There are three UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ilocos Sur alone.
For the artist in you, take your time to learn the tedious process of weaving abel. During the colonial area, abel was so famous, it......

...The Philippines (i/ˈfɪlɨpiːnz/; fi-lə-peenz; Filipino: Pilipinas [ˌpɪlɪˈpinɐs]), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Repúblika ng Pilipinas), is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,107 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila while its most populous city is Quezon City; both are part of Metro Manila.
To the north of the Philippines across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan; Vietnamsits west across the South China Sea; southwest is the island of Borneoacross the Sulu Sea, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia; while to the east it is bounded by the Philippine Sea and the island-nation of Palau. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons, but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world's greatest biodiversity. At approximately 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), the Philippines is the 64th-largest country in the world.
With a population of at least 99 million people, the Philippines is the seventh-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world. An additional 12 million Filipinos live overseas, comprising one of the world's largest diasporas. Multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands. In......

...The Philippines (i/ˈfɪlɨpiːnz/; Filipino: Pilipinas [ˌpɪlɪˈpinɐs]), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino:Repúblika ng Pilipinas), is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of 7,107 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions:Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila while its most populous city is Quezon City; both are part of Metro Manila.
To the north of the Philippines across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan;Vietnam sits west across the South China Sea; southwest is the island of Borneo across the Sulu Sea, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia; while to the east it is bounded by the Philippine Sea and the island-nation of Palau. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator makes the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons, but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world's greatestbiodiversity. At approximately 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), the Philippines is the 64th-largest country in the world.
With a population of at least 99 million people, the Philippines is theseventh-most populated country in Asia and the 12th most populated country in the world. An additional 12 million Filipinos live overseas, comprising one of the world's largest diasporas. Multiple ethnicitiesand cultures are found throughout the islands. In prehistoric......

...Philippines
Robin Brown
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on January 13, 2015, for Prof. Dorothy Moore, H440 International Healthcare.
Philippines
Thesis
In the Philippines, delivery of healthcare to its citizens is a fragmented system with a dysfunctional health workforce which results in great disparity between healthcare for the rich and poor. In 2010, the government concentrated on specific programs to promote effective and sustainable healthcare, but with many people in isolated parts of the country, this turned out to be a challenge.
The American health care system, according to television, radio and newspapers, is having issues with shortage of medical professionals, especially nurses and caregivers, in industrialized countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. This has caused a massive departure of certified health workers from the Philippines. The government is concerned that the health care system is going to collapse if the medical workers keep leaving. Since 1994, 100,000 medical workers have left the country (Castro, 2009). The economic uncertainty and the political instability in the Philippines have greatly affected the decisions of Filipino doctors to go abroad to find greener pastures. Medical graduates in the Philippines have been migrating to prosperous nations since the beginning of the 20th century but the increase in their numbers from recent years is very alarming. The current “migration” of......

... they made it their
purpose that they would stay isolated from the world, so that they could focus on their nation and
make it stronger. At the time, America would have needed a lot of attention to become the
superpower it is today, however in the late 1890’s the American soldiers and political leaders
broke the foreign policy by taking over the Philippines. Even though the men who spoke of the
ceded Philippine, they had different messages through their tone.
The first Spaniard to set foot on the Philippines was Ferdinand Magellan in 1521,
however the actual invasion did not begin until 1564. Spanish power in the Philippines soon
started to fall as other nations were starting to practice their spread of power in the mid 1700s.
When the U.S.S Maine sunk in an American attempt to relieve the tension between Cuba and
Spain exploded, the U.S. declared war on Spain and won a naval battle against them in Manila
Bay, May 1, 1898. By the time U.S. got to the Philippines, the Filipinos has already declared
their independence from Spain. However, their celebration did not last long when the Treaty of
Paris 1898 transferred the Philippines to under the U.S.’s power.
Wesley Merritt, William Mckinley, and Otis all had the same message to the Filipinos.
Everyone pretty much said the same thing, but at the different times, to remind the Filipinos that
the Americans were not their enemy. However, when Merritt made the first announcement, he
was smooth, too......

...EXTERNAL ANALYSIS of the PHILIPPINES
Filipinos are food lover.
Filipinos do not consider it a meal if rice is not served. Plain steamed rice is the basis of the diet. Three crops a year are harvested to provide enough rice for the population, and the government keeps surpluses stored for times of drought. Salt water and freshwater of fish and shellfish are eaten daily, served either fresh or salted. Fish, chicken and pork are usually fried, although people are becoming more health-conscious and often choose alternative methods of cooking. Garlic is added to food because it is considered healthful. Filipino food is not spicy. All food is cooked on gas burners or wood or charcoal fires and is allowed to get cold before it is eaten. Rice is cooked first, since it takes longer. When it is ready, rice will be placed on the table while the next items of the meal are prepared and served.
Table knives are not used. Forks and spoons are used for dining. The food is eaten from a spoon. The traditional method of placing food on a banana leaf and eating with one's hands is also used throughout the country. It is acceptable to eat food with one's hands at restaurants as well as in the home.
Breakfast is served at 6 A.M. and consists of food left over from the night before. It is not reheated. Eggs and sausage are served on special occasions. Small buns called pan de sol may be purchased from vendors early in the morning.
At midmorning and in the afternoon, people eat merienda. Since......

...PhilippinesEconomic Overview of Philippines
“One aggregate indicator of robustness and the most off-cited would be GDP
growth performance which gives an aggregate impression of the business
environment of a country.” (Plummer, 2009)
The Philippines narrowly qualifies as a lower middle-income country based on
the World Bank’s classification. With its sound economic fundamentals and
trained workforce, the Philippines has been among the dynamically emerging
markets in the region. Growth in the Philippines is on average about 5% since
2004, significantly greater than the rate achieved in the past two decades.
(The World Bank, 2014)
Despite the global economic downturn, Philippines has slowed down the
impact of recession due to the low reliance on exports, relatively resilient
domestic consumption, high amount of remittances from a substantial number
of Filipino labour, and a fast growing business process outsourcing industry.
(Central Intelligence Agency, 2014)
1.1 Production Output Performance Analysis
According to the Real GDP data computed by World Bank, the Philippines
has maintained a relatively stable pattern of growth since year 2005.
However, in year 2007, there was a sharp decline in the real GDP from near
7% to close to 1%. This could be due to the World Financial Crisis, which
resulted in the negative impact on the Philippines economy. The country’s
sluggish domestic investment and its declining share in GDP had only started
to recover and pick up...

...Computerized Grading System
Grachel Ching
John Hawk Roque
Introduction
People nowadays are living in an information age dependent upon digital information. Digital information is electronic information,the result of computer processing. Every type of job relies upon getting information, using it, managing it, and relaying information to others. Computers enable the efficient processing and storage of information.
Background of the Study
HOKACHING UNIVERSITY started at the year 2009 and later on grew on different branches on the Philippines. It has now almost half a million students both on High school Department and College Department.
"Education is the needs of each and every person to achieve their goals and aspirations in life."
Overview of the System
Grading System is a very important aspect of a school’s operations and goals. The students are graded to measure their performance and knowledge in every grading period. Professors spend massive time to accurately compute the grades of the students using their calculators, whether an ordinary of scientific type. In early times, teachers manually solve grades using paper and pen.
HOKACHING UNIVERSITY uses the manual way of computing grades and adding information or records of both students and professors. The process entails a lot of effort and by computing and storing of data manually the process is prone to error especially for the professors who handle two or more classes. By using the manual way of computing and......

... finances services and social security (Philippine Statistics Authority, 2015). Industry sectors contributes 31.2% of the total GPD (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014), which contains manufacturing, construction, mining and production, and power production (Advameg, Inc, 2015). The leftover of 11.3% of the total GDP came from Agriculture (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014).
Many years ago, Agriculture was once the main contributor to Philippines’s GDP. However in the last ten years there is an increase in other industries like production for apparels, ship building, electronics and semiconductors. Primary exports of Philippines are mainly conductors and electronic merchandise, transportation tools, garments, copper merchandise, crude oil merchandise, coconut oil, and fruits. Having major importers like China (23%), Japan (13%), United States (12%), Hong Kong (9.8%), and Singapore (5.4%), Philippines can potentially benefit from them by having almost the same GDP growth if these countries that Philippines exports significantly to are holding strong GDP growth as well (Alexander Simoes, 2015).
Over the years, the rise in number of Filipinos working overseas have significantly boasted their country GDP growth (BANYAN, 2010). The Philippines was recently being seen as a newly industrialised country and rank at number 40 in terms of the largest economy within the world and is among one of the rising markets within the world (PHILIPPINES CENTER FOR BPO, 2014).
Production......

...Philippines
Ask any Filipino how many islands there are in the Philippines and you will invariably receive the answer in the form of another question, “High tide or low tide? The most common figure given is 7,107 during low tide and 7,100 during high tide, but nobody knows where these numbers come from. The official figure from the Department of Tourism is 7,107 islands.
Known as the “Pearl of the Orient Sea” and the “Green Necklace of the Pacific” for the natural beauty of its string of islands sprawled like a necklace of gems against the backdrop of the vast blue Pacific Ocean, the Philippines was named Islas Filipinas (Philippine Islands) by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos when he claimed the group of islands for Spain in 1543. The name is in honor of Prince Phillip, who would later become Prince Philip II of Spain.
The Republic of the Philippines (Fig.1) is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands located southeast of mainland Asia and positioned along the Ring of Fire on the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean. Different bodies of water surround the country - South China Sea to the west, Sulu Sea to the Southwest, Celebes Sea to the south, and the Philippine Sea and Pacific Ocean to the east. The country is separated from Taiwan on the north by the Luzon Strait and from Malaysia on the southwest, by the Balabac Strait., The country’s overall land area is slightly larger than the size of Arizona. Although the country consists of thousands of islands,......

...Introduction to the Philippines
Separated from its Southeast Asian neighbours by the West Philippine Sea, the Philippines has always been a little different. As the only Asian nation colonized by the Spanish, this lush archipelago of dazzling beaches, year-round sun and warm, turquoise waters remains predominantly Roman Catholic, and culturally – a blend of Islamic, Malay, Spanish and American influences – it ofen feels light years away from the mainland, with a string of elegant colonial towns that have more in common with Latin America than the rest of Asia. It’s an enticing mix: all over the archipelago you’ll discover tantalizing food, friendly people and exurberant festivals. And the variety is astonishing: you can surf, islang-hop or dive pristine coral reefs in the morning and in the same day visit mysitical tribal villages, ancient rice terraces and jungle-smothered peaks.
Indeed, the Philippines is often underrated and misunderstood by travelers and its Asian neighbours, casually, dismissed as a supplier of maids, tribute bands, mail-order brides and corrupt politicians, epitomized by the gaudy excesses of Imelda Marcos. Don’t be a put off: while poverty and corruption remain serious problems, the Philippines is far more complex –and culturally rich –than the stereotypes suggest.
The Filipino people are variously descended from early Malay settlers, Muslim Sufis from the Middle East, Spanish conquistadors and friars, and later Chinese traders. It’s an old cliché, but...

...Who are the Citizens of the Philippines?
A Filipino citizen may be considered natural-born or naturalized citizen. Both statuses bestow upon the individual certain privileges and exclusive rights such as the rights to vote, to run for public, etc. which may be denied the foreigner.
NATURAL-BORN FILIPINO
Art. IV, sec. 2 of the 1987 Constitution defines the NATURAL-BORN Filipino citizens as:
1. “Those who are citizens of the Philippines at the time of the adoption of this (1987) Constitution”
2. “those whose fathers OR mothers are citizens of the Philippines” and
3. “those born before January 7, 1973, of Filipino mothers, who elect Philippine citizenship upon reaching the age of majority.
Even if the child is born to an alien father and a Filipino mother, the Filipino citizenship of the mother will bestow natural-born Philippine citizenship upon the child PROVIDED his birth occurred on or after January 17, 1973 (date of ratification of the 1973 Constitution), otherwise he followed the citizenship of the alien father and acquired at best only an inchoate Philippine citizenship which he could perfect by election upon attaining majority age. EXCEPT if he is born out of lawful wedlock, in which case, he will be considered a Filipino by virtue of his mother’s citizenship.
In addition, only natural-born citizens are allowed to hold constitutional offices such as the office of the President; Senators; Members of the House of......